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Issue No 31 11/10/2017

ELLY NEWS

In this issue:

Principal’s Report

Parents & Friends News

Play Cricket Information

School Diary

Walktober—Walk to school for the month of October

27th October —Prep to 4 Activity Day

3rd November—Prep Swimming Commences

7th November—Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

Yard Supervision times:

8:45am-9:00am

3:30pm—3:45pm—Bus duty

2017 Term Dates Term 4: 9/10—22/12 2018 Term Dates Term 1: 30/1—29/3 Term 2: 14/7—29/6 Term 3: 16/6-21/09

www.ellliminyt.vic.edu.au 135 Slater Street, Elliminyt Vic 3250 PO BOX 359 Colac 3250 Phone: 5231 5208 Fax: 52321943 ellliminyt.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Welcome back everyone! Term 4 is such an energetic, busy, fun filled term—we’re all looking forward to what it brings us this year!

Dates I cannot stress this enough—please make sure you stay up to speed with what’s happening at school to ensure your child doesn’t miss out! There will be lots happening right throughout Term 4 and these things are communicated through our newsletter, app or Facebook page (just search for Elliminyt Primary for membership—open to parents/carers only). This week we kicked off with Bike Ed for the Year 3-6 students—it was great to see so many students prepared and ready to learn! A few dates to put in the diary now include: Prep to 4 Activity Day—Friday 27th of October Prep Swimming program commences—Friday 3rd November

Melbourne Cup Public Holiday—Tuesday 7th of November Christmas Concert—Thursday December 7th

Statewide Transition Day for Kinder and Year 6 students—Tuesday December 12th Year 6 Graduation—Wednesday December 13th Final day of classes and final assembly —Friday December 15th

Alternative Program for students—Monday December 18th-Wednesday 20th

Walktober Every year we promote the importance of ‘Walktober’, an initiative of Vic Health, promoting healthy, active ways to travel to school. We will be recording the number of students who walk/scoot/ride to and from school each day, hoping that people will make the effort to choose a healthy method of travel. This isn't always possible, but little efforts such as stopping the block before school and walking the remainder, also count! Hopefully we’ll have some sunny weather this month that will make that all a bit easier!

‘Nude Food’ At the end of last term, through the Year 3/4 Integrated studies unit, we had a focus on ‘nude food’ to minimize the amount of rubbish that school lunches produce. Our students surveyed the ‘pre’ and ‘post’ rubbish—stand by for those results! That was a great opportunity to try some ‘nude’ options for school snacks—but now that the unit is finished, the challenge is for us to continue those good habits as part of our normal routine. There are some great ideas/resources online, just google ‘nude food ideas’!

Birregurra Festival This weekend our P&F group are running a BBQ at the Birregurra Festival as part of their fundraising work this year. We were incredibly fortunate to get the meat and bread for the weekend COMPLETELY DONATED by our local Woolworths store! We are incredibly grateful for this generous donation as it means that, along with the donations of drinks from our school community, ALL of the takings will be going back into our school! If you are heading to the festival on the weekend, make sure you call past our stall and buy a sausage or two! Angela Hall Principal

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STUDENT AWARDS

Prep S Lilah F for her great recount using correct punctuation. Well done!

1/2M Penny M for working hard right up until the end of last term.

1/2T Anastasia C for always listening during instruction time and doing her personal

best.

Sport Chloe R for her contribution to a great performance in Gymnastics.

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Canteen

Friday October 13th, 2017

Morning Supervisor: Renee Hall

9:00am:

Sarah Lawless, Melanie Drayton,

Karla Ingram

Afternoon Supervisor: Julie Walters

12:30pm: Kyla Vinton, Belinda Rocka

CORRESPONDENCE OVER THIS WEEK

Kinder/Buddy Visit Forms—Year 5 Students only

SAVE THE DATE

2nd Colac Sea Scout Group invite you to the 21st annual

Freak Night Kids Disco Freak Night is a spooky themed dress-up disco run by 2nd Colac Cub Scouts for kids

aged 6 to 11. Come and have some fun on Friday 13th of October at the Otway Plains

District Scout Hall (Log Cabin, down behind the Police Station).

For more information contact Kathy on 52 348 376.

WALK TO SCHOOL Walk to School this October and kick-start your child’s active habits for life. In 2016, we achieved: 758 schools participating, 144,928 students participating and 2,238,326 number of walks, rides and scoots. Vichealth’s Walk to School month encourages primary school children to walk, ride, scoot to and from school throughout October, to help them get the 60 minutes of physical activity they need each day. Walking to and from school can also give you more time to connect and chat with your kids, and the opportunity to meet up with the other local families along the way. Parents and carers are encouraged to discuss safe routes to school and talk about road rules, safe crossing points, stranger danger, etc in the lead up to Walk to School. For further information please visit www.walktoschool.vic.gov.au If you can’t walk all the way, your child can still get involved—simply drive part way and walk, ride or scoot the rest! If your child’s school is taking part in Walk to School, your child’s teacher will record how many times students walk to and from school during October, using a classroom calendar. There are also some fantastic prizes on offer for participating students and schools!

BOOKCLUB Book club order forms were sent home this week. Orders can be placed in the box in the office. If you are paying by cheque please make it payable to ‘Scholastic’. If you wish to order books without your child’s knowledge please mark this request very clearly on the order form. You will be personally contacted when the orders arrive so that you can collect the books from the office. Orders for this issue are due back on Thursday 26th October. We will be having another BOOK FAIR on Wednesday 29th November, where you buy one book and get your second book free. This will be a good opportunity for you to start your Christmas shopping or perhaps you could donate a book to our school library. Thanks, Marg Phillips

DETOX YOU HOME Detox your home is safe, free and easy-to-use. Use this service to dispose of common house-hold chemicals without harming the health of

you, your loved ones or the environment. Simply turn up on the day with your unwanted

items and we'll do the rest. Colac Collection

Saturday 21st October 2017 10am to 12pm

Colac Regional Saleyards For further information:

Sustainability.vic.gov.au/detoxyourhome 1300 060 744

COOK BOOKS If you placed an order for a

Cook Book and haven’t collect-

ed them they are at the office.

We also have some extra copies

of the book if you missed out on

placing an order. The books are $10 each.

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